Je 04.35 ptm 2007.02.23, vi skribis
>Je 12.58 ptm 2007.02.23, Dave RUTAN skribis
>>Hmm. I almost hate to ask this, because of the 'discussions' which
>>may erupt.... BUT for a wee project I'm working on, I was
>>wondering -IF- there's a consensus on what are currently the top
>>Three Auxlangs in the world.
>>
>>By that I mean, I suppose, which three auxlangs have the most
>>speakers and body of literature?
>
>These would have to be Esperanto, Interlingua and Ido, the last two
>probably but not necessarily in that order, and the last two
>trailing at least two or three orders of magnitude (in number of
>speakers and body of literature) behind Esperanto. Other auxlangs
>(or auxlang wannabes) generally have few to zero speakers and no
>body of literature worth mentioning (except perhaps for a relict
>body left over from Occidental's heyday, and probably accessible
>today only with difficulty).
>
>Note: there are several mailing lists for other IALs, and there are
>postings to those lists in the languages in question, so e.g.
>Volapuk and Lingua Franca Nova evidently have a few speakers, or at
>least writers, extant.
Peeking at YahooGroups, I find the following:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/occidental/ - 121 subscribers. Two of
the last five messages were in Occidental. There have been a total of
20 messages posted here in the last six months. (Note: this one got a
good start in late 1999 with 365 messages its first full month. After
that, everything slowly trailed off.)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/volapuk/ - 174 subscribers. Two of the
last five messages were partly in Volapuk. There have been a total of
122 messages in the last six months.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LinguaFrancaNova/ - 178 subscribers.
Five of the last five messages were in LFN. There have been a total
of 99 messages in the last six months.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/adjuvilo/ - 13 subscribers. Zero of the
last five messages were in Adjuvilo. There have been 48 messages in
the last 6 months.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/novial/ - 21 subscribers. Hardly worth
mentioning anything more, because this list (which may be a mirror)
last recorded a message in 2005.
-- Don HARLOW
http://www.webcom.com/~donh/don/don.html
Opinions (in English): http://www.harlows.org/don/opinions/
Esperanto (in English): http://www.harlows.org/don/esperanto/
Literaturo (Esperante): http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/Literaturo